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LONDON — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final ...
The German book industry reported a 1.8% increase in revenue for 2024, reaching €9.88 billion; adjusted for inflation, the ...
The German author Daniel Kehlmann, most recently of the novel “Tyll,” recommends books that explore the city’s painful past and dynamic present.
The German book market is one of the world’s most dynamic, served by a network of booksellers, and with a highly diverse book supply.
At home, Americans went after anything German with a patriotic gusto that even reached into the schools. “Where anti-German sentiment ran high, school boards approved the removal of German books ...
The German War is extremely readable for a book of its scope, subject, and size. But it is grim. On top of it, the kids have been battling the flu this week.
This book qualifies as the German Naked and the Dead on the literary principle of silt by association. Author Böll, 37, known to U.S. readers for Acquainted with the Night ...
German Ulysses*ALEXAXDERPLATZ, BERLIN — Alfred Doblin; translated by Eugene Jolas— Viking ($5). The birth of books is never quite legitimate, and often their parentage is hopelessly ...
WASHINGTON — Robert Thomas, 83, breezed into the National Archives with a smile, a white hankie peeking out of his suit coat pocket and an old briefcase containing the two rare books he filched ...
German Books on America. Share full article. July 18, 1854. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from July 18, 1854, Page 2 Buy Reprints. View on ...